Ted revisited

We are reminded that "Ted changed so many lives," and in so doing resurrected himself in the image of an advocate for the little guy; therefore he should be forgiven for that "mishap on the bridge".

An advocate for the little guy? Really? He fought welfare reform for goodness sake. How did that help the little guy? He opposed low-income parents’ choosing effective schools for their kids. That was a real help. He did demand taxpayer funding for abortions. You mean that kind of advocate?

Know what? We don’t care if his supposed concern for the masses was genuine (plenty of those "masses" in Hyannis Port aren’t there?) because where we grew up no one tolerates cowardly acts from men. You cross that line and you’re an outcast. What kind of real male was this guy? He wasn’t. He was an east coast elitist, a gutless wonder, a drunk, effeminate like most of his kind; he had no respect for women and was likely useless in the sack to boot. (The lefty women rave about this guy but no way they would make the trade for this bottom feeder if they had a cowhand in tow, just in from the roundup - a gentleman, genuine, strong and virile, right ladies?) Now the adulation, remiders of all the good this clown's done for Americans, lives he's changed, is crap. The real Ted Kennedy was in plain view that night in 1969 - drunk, felling sorry for himself, looking for cover, while a human being slowly exhausted that oxygen left to her. As Mark Steyn noted recently, "I don’t know how many lives the senator changed — he certainly changed Mary Jo’s — but you’re struck less by the precise arithmetic than by the basic equation: How many changed lives justify leaving a human being struggling for breath for up to five hours pressed up against the window in a small, shrinking air pocket in Teddy’s Oldsmobile? If the senator had managed to change the lives of even more Americans, would it have been okay to leave a couple more broads down there? Hey, why not? At the Huffington Post, Melissa Lafsky mused on what Mary Jo "would have thought about arguably being a catalyst for the most successful Senate career in history . . . Who knows — maybe she’d feel it was worth it."

Have the left no limits, no standards of acceptable behavior? I think we all know the answer.



Robert Craven